Tombstone Tuesday: Nature’s Floral Tribute

For today’s Tombstone Tuesday I want to show this photo that we took at St. Peter’s Church, Mithian, Cornwall on May 31st this year.

It just seemed to me that the wild flowers growing all around the tombstone were making their own tribute to what may be a long forgotton grave. I could be wrong but there were no signs of any visit, no old dead flowers, no vase, no flattened grass to place something here.

This is not the grave of one of our ancestors, but as the Graveyard Rabbit for St. Peter’s I transcribed the tombstone as best I could.

original photograph taken by me at Mithian, Cornwall May 2010 - copyright 2010

The tombstone reads:

In

loving memory of

Mary Edwards

the wife of

T. Dennis …(?)

of Blackwater

(unreadable line)

November 13th 1878(?)

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Thomas Dennis …(this word covered by the ivy)

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(unreadable date)

We noticed that there were a few other tombstones here with the surname Edwards but like this one, there were no signs at all of anyone visiting these graves.

Hallo Ashley, Thanks for your comment and visiting my blog and please accept my apologies for the long delay in answering!! I’m looking for a nice, not tooooo cold day to go take some more photos at Mithian so will be getting back into the swing of things soon.

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Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiselled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.AUTHOR UNKNOWN